Coronavirus vaccine might be available this year, but don't 'bank on it,' Johns Hopkins health expert says
A vaccine for the novel coronavirus may arrive by the end of year, but don’t "bank on it," a top health expert from John Hopkins University said Sunday.
A vaccine for the novel coronavirus may arrive by the end of year, but don’t "bank on it," a top health expert from John Hopkins University said Sunday.
“We should hold out some level of hope that if everything goes in the right direction, we could possibly be seeing a vaccine by the end of the year,” Inglesby told host Chuck Todd.
“Given that there are now 110 vaccine projects going on around the world that all the major vaccine companies in the world are working on this in some way, and given that Tony Fauci and Moncef Slaoui are now leading figures in the U.S. in this project and they both believe it’s possible, I think it is possible,” he added. “But, everything would have to break in the right way, and there are many ways that it might not work. So, I don’t think we should bank on it.”
Fauci is a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force; President Trump chose Slaoui to lead the push to shorten the time needed to produce such a vaccine. Click here for more.
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